Voice your Wall

Depending on what you were saying, these pictures of your voice print could make for an interesting before dinner drinks conversation.
From the Canadian company VoicePrints comes this art form of printing your voice and hanging the results on your wall.



Now is that a shout, a word or 'what were you saying?'

Original story via Thrillist.com (original link)

American Accents: All You Ever Wanted to Know and Then Some

"NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH, like its British cousin, has many diverse dialects and sub-dialects. Did you know that residents of the San Francisco Bay area generally speak differently from other Californians? Had you heard that people from parts of New Orleans sound like New Yorkers, or that residents of North Carolina's outer banks can sound more like folks from Charleston, South Carolina than other southerners? All this information and more is available on Rick Aschmann's map of English dialects in North America."

From The Economist blog Gulliver 

What Americans sound like

The article refers mainly to Rick Aschmann's rather excellant map called that has links to YouTube video examples

North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns